April 19, 2010.docx

April 19, 2010IST195 Stereotypes of work interpersonal skills were the highest rated non-technology skill most IT people do planning, architecture, and configuration but little coding can get jobs in other places other than IT departments Cigna Deloitte and Touche travelers pricewatterhouse coopers goldman sachs liberty mutual GE Microsoft IT tasks are distributed through every department of organizations in every sector sales marketing engineering logistics government nonprofit Four quadrants of information jobs technical have one or more specifialty areas such as distributed databases, web applications, or network security managerial people planning, budgetary components production create, make, engineer, or build something new chips, software, device, products, etc. operations keep processes running, make them efficient and productive What to expect lots of meetings working in groups working with end users proposing solution, timetables, and budgets conducting interviews/surveys analyzing data to create reports/plans training developing tech, curricula learning new apps present project status and results to many direct interaction with CEO, CIO Techmeme.com Huffingtonpost.com